I see something similar with music playback through the stereo in the work truck. And I see worse things, sometimes requireing power cycling the phone.

Nearly every time I plug the phone into the stereo with Waze open and active it will require power cycling.

Most of the time if I plug the phone into the stereo with Waze running, but not the active app, it will start playback just fine. But some of the time when I do so it will appear from the car stereo's viewpoint that I've got music playing back, but paused. Hitting the play/pause button does nothing. Waze seems to be what has caused the pause. Exiting Waze *sometimes* automatically resumes playback. Sometimes it does not. Most of the time I am required to exit Waze and unplug, wait a few seconds, and plug back in to the car stereo. After the normal 'reading' phase that takes a few seconds the playback will begin. Once playback has begun I can fire up Waze again.

If I accidentally leave Waze running and it is the active app and leave the phone connected to the car stereo then I'm in trouble. Heh. If I don't realize I've done so, and start the work truck back up, the phone is next to useless and is so unresponsive to user input that I'll be lucky if I can get it to power down. And it needs to be power cycled if I have forgotten it is connected and I start the truck back up before noticing. Something goes horribly wrong between the phone, the stereo, and Waze, and I imagine some kind of race condition is triggered, making the phone nearly completely unresponsive. It usually takes me several minutes and quite a few attempts at holding down the power button and phantom swiping in hopes that it recognizes the swipe and shuts down. I suppose I could just do the two-button hard reset when that happens, but I prefer having it shut down normally.

One or two stable app store release versions ago none of this happened.

camrun91 wrote:dont know if this is what you mean or not but i experianced this today. had waze open with pandora playing in background. got to post office ran in really quick like maybe one min or so. come back to car plug aux plug back into headphone jack and press play on pandora. it plays fine until i open waze (which was never shut off) then music pauses until I open the multitasking bar again. have to close shut down waze and restart.that solved it.

Yeah, how that ever got changed to behave that way is a head-scratcher.

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:BUG: Auto-night mode worked just fine until this version.

I read earlier that it will switch automatically to night or day mode now only if you start Waze within 30 minutes of dusk/dawn? This makes no sense to me at all. Please change it back to the way it was working fine before.

dont know if this is what you mean or not but i experianced this today. had waze open with pandora playing in background. got to post office ran in really quick like maybe one min or so. come back to car plug aux plug back into headphone jack and press play on pandora. it plays fine until i open waze (which was never shut off) then music pauses until I open the multitasking bar again. have to close shut down waze and restart.that solved it.

While english TTS is fine, the german version is not sufficiently loud for freeway-driving. The german standard guidance is fine, but TTS is badly usable. It's been this way since it became available...

The improvement in the current betas: Finally, it's possible to use the "minimum guidance" without TTS again, so I can choose to use loud and clear guidance instead of barely audible long TTS-directions.